Today is Blog Action Day

Today is Blog Action Day, a day when bloggers post their takes on an important issue. This year the topic is poverty. I posted about hunger on my food and cooking blog — please take a moment to read the post and consider taking action.

Technology can be a key component in the effort to end poverty. Here are just a selection of the Blog Action Day posts on the subject:

• Using Mobile Technology to Fight Poverty (Startup Africa)
• Technology Key to Ending Poverty (PIC Current)
• Can Twitter Eliminate Poverty? (CorporateDollar.org)
• Technology Can Overcome Poverty. Ask Me How! (Radvision)
• Poverty Alleviation Through Information Communications Technology (Into the Digital Light)
• Technology and VOIP: An Aid to the Way Out of Poverty (VOIP)
• Technology Can Help to Reduce Poverty in Africa (Nick Masao)

And here are some innovative technology-based solutions:

• Kiva - microfinancing through the Internet
• End Poverty Blog – blogging about efforts to end world poverty
• mGive - SMS donations
• Uncultured Project - fighting poverty on YouTube
• And I have to plug what we are doing with informatics at IntraHealth

Related articles by Zemanta

• How Can We Help Beat Poverty? [Ask The Readers]
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• Join Global Bloggers and Fight Poverty
• John Hilary: Can blogging end poverty?
• Reflections on Poverty – Blog Action Day 2008
• Blog Action Day 08: We Don’t Need Coins, We Need Change